On Pinocchio: Okay, I don’t think you can really blame a small child for taking advantage of an escape option if it’s presented instead of trying to take care of a baby, particularly since he was obviously in a situation where he couldn’t do much. HOWEVER:

-He must somehow have become affluent for years before this-he couldn’t bother to try and look her up? That wouldn’t exactly have been the huge burden a baby would have.

-Plus, completely ignoring Emma means he wasn’t just deciding not to care about her, but that he no longer cared about ANYONE from his homeland-including dear, old dad.

-Trying to convince Emma because he’s starting to took back into wood and realized he’s dying is HARDLY just “realizing his mistake and trying to fix it” out of remorse or his own goodness, the way Pinocchio let Gepetto think it happened. That’s coercion, not kindness or really rectifying.

-He seriously thought convincing Emma would be that simple? I know he’s not the psychologist, but he’s the one who’s been around other people in this world most of his life, he knows how hard it is for most of them to believe. He seriously thought that getting her to acknowledge “I’m the boy who found you” would automatically lead to “so the curse is real”? Also, no one should understand better Emma’s qualms about accepting responsibility. Pinocchio couldn’t make allowances for that in his plan??? Dumbass.

-So, now he’s just going to go do woodwork with Gepetto, having given up on Emma for the second time. Quitter.

-I knew I hated the idea of him being Pinocchio, but did they have to make me hate August, too?

-Oh, and that scene with him and Mr. Gold? “Trust me” and the answer’s about knowing his Pinoccho instead of “you lied about being my son”!? Also, “that’s none of your business”? Didn’t think of that when you were getting me to confess and apologize to you, now did you, Pinocchiboy? I hated that Mr. Gold never called him out on that. I’ll just assume that Gold’s wish not to remember his difficult moments is purposefully avoiding them.

On Gepetto: It’s amazing to me how so many people here have similar resentments, and so few of them actually draw the lines and recognize the connections. Gepetto tells Jiminy that the debt he owes can never be repaid-that debt being depriving Gepetto of his parents. Therefore, he should just let Gepetto….send two small children into a world where they’re not only deprived of parents, but everything else familiar??? Great thinking, that!

On Disney: Also, the repeated idea of Snow going through the wardrobe is interesting. Do the people not know that time will stand still? Is everyone aware that wold mean that Snow would be reunited with her prince when she’s decades older than him now? You can almost hear the sigh of relief that Gepetto stopped that from happening-true love surviving in such disparate ages all of a sudden just wouldn’t be Disney!

On the Blue Fairy: What is up with this lady? First, she seems to have a lot of access to “the last one” of things. Is this a coincidence? Are her fairies somehow not taking care of the magical elements of this world properly and that’s why? Has she used up her resources so indiscriminately over the years? I feel like she needs to watch “The Lorax” on magical trees, seeds, and probably other enchanted items. Second, she really seems to have a thing for Gepetto. Other people are lucky if she, or any fairy, shows up once. Gepetto had her magic him a permanent caretaker, help him get a son, turn his son real, agree to lie for him…Did she have a crush on his dad or something? Third, just what kind of preparations could her fairies make before the curse took over, and how were they more important than making sure Emma, and possibly Snow, went through the wardrobe?